Causes of Boredom in Today's Society
Nicole Knox-Vilchez
Professor Pamela St. Clair
English 101
Essay 2
1 November 2014
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom” a quote by Arthur Schopenhauer. How many times a day does someone say, “I’m so bored”? Too many times it appears. Boredom seems to becoming more of a big deal in our culture today. Why? What has changed or made people today become more lazy and uninterested in life? Humans should be motivated and excited to be alive and health, and willing to learn new things. Two things that seem to play a big role in being bored are Technology and a person’s self-choice. Another factor could be personal health issues like ADD/ADHD. These different types of factors lead people to discover different options on how to cope with it in a numerous of ways, technology being a factor yet again. Author Richard Restak discusses how technology affects our brains in his article, “Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of Our Era”. Author Bill Wasik shows us what boredom can make us do in his article “My Crowd Experiment” The Mob Project”. Boredom should not be an issue in our culture today because of how it can affect us in a negative way.
Boredom is not a new subject in today’s culture; it has actually been a discussion for psychologists since Sigmund Freud (Wasik 514). Since then, researchers have created several test designs to calculate the “boredom plagued”. “But it was not until 1986, with the unveiling of the Boredom Proneness Scale (BPS), that the propensity toward boredom in the individual could be comprehensively measured and reckoned with” (514). This test allowed researchers to tally up boredom’s wages. This assessment has twenty-eight that are true or false questions, you add 1 for every true answer you get. Wasik has a very valid point in his article. “I would advance the prediction that answers to these latter four questions have become meaningless in recent years, when all of our interactive technologies- video games and mobile
Professor Pamela St. Clair
English 101
Essay 2
1 November 2014
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom” a quote by Arthur Schopenhauer. How many times a day does someone say, “I’m so bored”? Too many times it appears. Boredom seems to becoming more of a big deal in our culture today. Why? What has changed or made people today become more lazy and uninterested in life? Humans should be motivated and excited to be alive and health, and willing to learn new things. Two things that seem to play a big role in being bored are Technology and a person’s self-choice. Another factor could be personal health issues like ADD/ADHD. These different types of factors lead people to discover different options on how to cope with it in a numerous of ways, technology being a factor yet again. Author Richard Restak discusses how technology affects our brains in his article, “Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of Our Era”. Author Bill Wasik shows us what boredom can make us do in his article “My Crowd Experiment” The Mob Project”. Boredom should not be an issue in our culture today because of how it can affect us in a negative way.
Boredom is not a new subject in today’s culture; it has actually been a discussion for psychologists since Sigmund Freud (Wasik 514). Since then, researchers have created several test designs to calculate the “boredom plagued”. “But it was not until 1986, with the unveiling of the Boredom Proneness Scale (BPS), that the propensity toward boredom in the individual could be comprehensively measured and reckoned with” (514). This test allowed researchers to tally up boredom’s wages. This assessment has twenty-eight that are true or false questions, you add 1 for every true answer you get. Wasik has a very valid point in his article. “I would advance the prediction that answers to these latter four questions have become meaningless in recent years, when all of our interactive technologies- video games and mobile